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Richard Matthew

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Associate Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design and Political Science
Ph.D. Princeton University
Phone: 824-4852
Office: 212C SEI
Email: rmatthew@uci.edu
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Richard A. Matthew (PhD Princeton) is Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (www.cusa.uci.edu) and Associate Professor of International and Environmental Politics in the Schools of Social Ecology and Social Science at the University of California at Irvine. He is also the Senior Fellow for Security at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD); a member of the World Conservation Union's Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy; and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (Region 1).

His research focuses on four themes: (1) the structure and dynamics of transnational threat systems such as global terrorism; (2) the relationship between demographic change and new security challenges in democracies; (3) the relationships among microfinance, security and sustainable development; and (4) the environmental dimensions of conflict, human security and peacebuilding in war-torn societies of the developing world, especially in South Asia and East Africa. He has collaborated with IISD to study environmental change in relation to the causes of conflict, conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sudan. All of this research explores ways in which conservation and sustainable development can be designed and implemented to reduce violence and insecurity in different settings.

Recent books and co-edited volumes include Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics (SUNY Press: 1999); Dichotomy of Power: Nation versus State in World Politics (Lexington: 2002); Conserving the Peace: Resources, Livelihoods, and Security (IISD: 2002); Reframing the Agenda: The Impact of NGO and Middle Power Cooperation in International Security Policy (Praeger: 2003); and Landmines and Human Security: International Relations and War's Hidden Legacy (SUNY Press: 2004).

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Selected Publications

  • Co-editor, Reframing the Agenda: Middle Powers and World Politics (New York: Praeger, 2003).
  • Co-editor, Landmines and Human Security: War's Hidden Legacy and International Relations (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004)
  • Co-author, "Banning Landmines in the American Century," International Journal on World Peace, XVI:2, June 1999, pp. 23-36.
  • "In Search of Environmental Leadership," Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2000, pp. 107-114.
  • Co-author, "Environment, Population, and Conflict: Suggesting a Few Steps Forward," Environmental Change and Security Project Report, 6, Summer 2000, pp. 99-103.
  • Co-author, "A Symposium on International Environmental Law: Introduction and Context," UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 19:1, 2000/2001, pp. 1-9.
  • Co-author, "The Ecology of Peace," Peace Review, 14:1, March 2002, pp. 33-40.
  • "In Defense of Environment and Security Research," Environmental Change and Security Project Report 8, Summer 2002, pp. 109-124.
  • "Environment, Population and Conflict: New Modalities of Threat and Vulnerability in South Asia," Journal of International Affairs, 56:1, Fall 2002, pp. 235-254.
  • Co-author, "The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Movement to Ban Landmines,"Alternatives, 28, Summer 2003, pp. 29-56.
  • Co-author, "Time to Sign the Mine Ban Treaty," Issues in Science and Technology, 19:3, Spring 2003, pp. 69-73.
  • Co-author, "Elusive Quest: Linking Environmental Change and Conflict," Canadian Journal of Political Science, Fall 2003.
  • Co-author, "Networks of Threat and Vulnerability: Lessons from Environmental Security Research," Environmental Change and Security Project Report 10, 2004, pp. 36-42.
  • Co-author, "The Pendulum Effect: Explaining Shifts in the Democratic Response to Terrorism," Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policies, forthcoming December 2005.
  • Co-author, "Cities under Siege: Urban Planning and the Threat of Infectious Disease," Journal of the American Planning Association, forthcoming 2006.
  • Co-author, "The Limits of Terrorism: A Network Perspective," International Studies Review, forthcoming December 2005.
  • Co-author, "Environmental Stress and Demographic Change in Nepal: Underlying Conditions Contributing to a Decade of Insurgency," Environmental Change and Security Project Report 11, forthcoming December 2005.
  • Co-author, "Sex, Drugs and Heavy Metal: Transnational Threats and National Vulnerabilities," Security Dialogue, 29:2, June 1998, pp. 163-175.
  • Co-editor, Contested Grounds: Security and Conflict in the New Environmental Politics (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999).
  • "The Environment as a National Security Issue," Journal of Policy History, 12:1, 2000, pp. 101-122.
  • Co-author, "Conflict or Cooperation? The Social and Political Impacts of Resource Scarcity in Small Island States," Global Environmental Politics, 1:2, May 2001, pp. 48-70.
  • "Environment and Conflict in Northern Pakistan," Environmental Change and Security Project Report, 7, Summer 2001, pp. 17-31.
  • Co-author, "The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Mine Ban Movement," Alternatives, forthcoming Fall 2002.
  • Dichotomy of Power: Nation versus State in World Politics (Lanham: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
  • Co-editor, Conserving the Peace: Resources, Livelihoods, and Security (Geneva and Winnipeg: IISD Press, 2002).
  • "In the Balance: The Environment and U.S. Foreign Policy," Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2000, pp. 107-114.

 

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